Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The species was formerly placed in the genus Hemitragus together with the Himalayan tahr (H. jemlahicus) and the Arabian tahr (Arabitragus jayakari).A 2005 phylogenetic analysis showed that the Himalayan and Arabian tahr are sisters of the genus Capra while the Nilgiri tahr is a sister of the genus Ovis and it was therefore separated into the monotypic genus Nilgiritragus in 2005. [5]
E. R. C. Davidar (Tamil: ஈ. ஆர். சி. டேவிதார்) was an Indian naturalist, scholar and lawyer.He is remembered for the first survey of the Nilgiri tahr in 1975 over western ghat range, conducting the first study in India on elephant corridors and taking an active part in the protection of the Nilgiris.
Nilgiri Tahr is the state animal of Tamil Nadu. [8] It has references from Tamil Sangam Literature like Cilappatikaram and Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi . In 2023, Tamil nadu government has declared October 7 as Nilgiri Tahr Day in honour of E. R. C. Davidar [ 9 ]
The Nilgiri tahrs are found only in the montane grasslands of the Southwestern Ghats, and number barely 2000 individuals. Nilgiri tahr in the Nilgiris. Three national parks protect portions of the Nilgiris. Mudumalai National Park lies in the northern part of the range where Kerala, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu meet, and covers an area of 321 km 2.
This site uses Sinhala Unicode fonts. To see them displayed correctly, follow the steps below. To see them displayed correctly, follow the steps below. We recommend that you use Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or later versions instead of Internet Explorer , Google Chrome or Opera , which seem to have some rendering issues.
Mukurthi is near the northern end of the range of the Nilgiri tahr. A three-day census in March 2007 estimated 200 tahrs in the park including 60 young ones sighted. [ 13 ] There are also leopard , bonnet macaque , sambar deer , barking deer , mouse deer , otter , jungle cat , small Indian civet , wild dog , jackal , black-naped hare , shrew ...
TACE16 is faster in sorting over Unicode Tamil by about 0.31 to 16.96 percent. Index creation on TACE16 data is faster by 36.7% than Unicode. For full key search on indexed fields, TACE16 performs better than Unicode Tamil by up to 24.07%. In the case of non-indexed fields, TACE16 performs better than Unicode Tamil by up to 20.9%.
The Sinhala script (Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāwa), also known as Sinhalese script, is a writing system used by the Sinhalese people and most Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhala language as well as the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit. [3]